There Existed Poverty Before Intelligence or Accountants

That the fake apocalypse won yesterday - today the streets lined with flag-wavers - feels old tomorrow, the prospect of defending what was just won already enervating, wearying, is why future apocalypses are scheduled at regular intervals.

A friend tells me the question ending paragraph two isn't self-obviously self-scathing enough, those new to the bleg not having time yet to grow sick of the gag, and noted.

I'm aware of and unwilling to disconnect myself from the bennies I'm allotted for the labor I provide, I've four DCU home games in two weeks and then go on vacation to scout more elite colleges for my daughter. My aargh is compromised, yo.

Shit, I'm spider as you, happy not to be squashed while I'm toyed with, hoping to be old and fat when finally squashed.

• Neo-liberal newspeak and digital capitalism in crisis.
• Reading this reminded me to remind you to check Hatherley daily.
• They live.
• On complexity.
• On systems.
• The difference between propaganda and probability.
• Cyber-war! Be scared and obey!
• Declare victory and go home.
• Never leaving.
• The role of the press.
• Obamoron.
• UPDATE! Obamalame.
• Please please please please.
• Media moral standards.
• Diaperman! (See above link if you don't get it.)
• Horrible human beings.
• Don't forget to mock christer-pigs.
• Another reason I'm able to resist buying an iPod.
• Don't forget Shorpy daily too.
• No, fuck you.
• Ehrlichmentum! Heh.
• Glenmont!
• UPDATE! Silver Spring! 3 miles from my house, never go.
• World Cup anti-climax.
• Last link on the game unless something shocking breaks.
• We live in Moronistan.
• Is prose-poetry a slut?
• I've read 29 of them, all the Dickens for school, at least half for school.
• Free Jane Siberry! Sfunny, I'm too lazy to go find it, but I wrote about Siberry fairly recently and have been listening a lot lately.
• Hah! My thought exactly when I saw the NYT article about Gordon Fucking Sumner.
• UPDATE! Torture.
• Airport has some Fever Ray.
• UPDATE! Have I ever mentioned I love Archers of Loaf?
• The way he sings.
• UPDATE! Is this on me?

EMPTY PITCHFORKS

Thomas Lux

    “There was poverty before money.”

There was debtors’ prison before inmates,   

there was hunger prefossil,

there was pain before a nervous system   

to convey it to the brain, there existed

poverty before intelligence, or accountants,   

before narration; there was bankruptcy aswirl

in nowhere, it was palpable
where nothing was palpable, there was repossession

in the gasses forming so many billion ... ;
there was poverty—it had a tongue—in cooling

ash, in marl, and coming loam,
thirst in the few strands of hay slipping

between a pitchfork’s wide tines,   

in the reptile and the first birds,

poverty aloof and no mystery like God   

its maker; there was surely want

in one steamed and sagging onion,   

there was poverty in the shard of bread

sopped in the final drop of gravy
you snatched from your brother’s mouth.

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